‘I Did What I Had to Do': loyalty and Sacrifice in Girls' Narratives of Homicide in Southern Brazil
This paper examines how criminalized teenage girls who have committed homicide reconcile violent practices with self-conceptions of femininity in their personal narratives. Data come from 13 biographical interviews with adolescent girls incarcerated in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Drawing from Bourdieusian...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2020
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The British journal of criminology
Año: 2020, Volumen: 60, Número: 3, Páginas: 703-721 |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
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| Sumario: | This paper examines how criminalized teenage girls who have committed homicide reconcile violent practices with self-conceptions of femininity in their personal narratives. Data come from 13 biographical interviews with adolescent girls incarcerated in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Drawing from Bourdieusian theory and narrative criminology, I examine how gendered social structures shape how girls produce intelligible and morally coherent accounts of their crimes. I found that girls share a narrative habitus that allows for three different frames to make sense of violence: violence as a gendered resource, as a gendered failure and as a gendered dilemma. This paper contributes to a growing feminist narrative criminology that investigates how personal narratives of violence are embedded in gendered social structures. |
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| ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azz079 |
